Loana Piper
Loana Piper is Beloved’s Bay Area Program Manager and previously served as the lead Self Determination Advocate at the Young Women’s Freedom Center. She is a queer young woman of Black and Vietnamese descent from Oakland, California who experienced housing insecurity, involvement with child protective services and was part of the underground street economy growing […]
Adanely Duenas
Nely was born in Mexico and raised in East Oakland, California. She is a formerly incarcerated woman, a daughter, a sister, and a proud Latina. Because of her life and how she experienced it, Nely is now an active organizer in her community. She has been organizing with and for her people since 2019. She […]